The Wicker COLOSSUS of the DRUIDS. Antique print c1773.

by Spencer, Nathaniel

Ancient Druids pagan sacrifice, burning inside wicker man... "Wherein Malefactors, Prifoners of War, and sometimes Innocent Perfons (when there was a deficiency of the former) were Burnt as Scrifices to their Deities."

Strange customs is ancient times, engraved on a copperplate for publication c1771 in The Complete English Traveller, or a new survey and description of England and Wales, etc. by Nathaniel Spencer. This popular series of engravings were reissued by others for similar style historic English publications until the end of the 18th century.

Page size is 363 x 225mm (approximately 14 x 9 inches) with deckled vertical edge.